Really?

[WTF11]

1st game 1957 (don't remember it much cos I was only 5) Leeds through and through as are all my family on Dads side (Mums side is Scottish and most are Dundee United)

Started going to matches properly in 1963/64 and truth be known I fear for them in every competition. I hope, always hope, we do well and am ecstatic when we do and desolate when we don't. After so many years of Ups n Downs, Highs and Lows I now tend to cross my fingers and pray.

It has been said that we were cursed and I know Don Revie brought in a Gypsy to remove the curse. Maybe Andrea should bring another one in just in case the curse came back.

I thought (hoped) we would do it this year but as the injuries piled up and the loss of Saiz followed by the Daniel James debacle it became clear that we would struggle.

Having said all that, this season has been fantastic. The Club seems to have re-engaged fully with the fans. We have an owner, a CEO, a Head Coach and all the coaching staff all the way through to the Office Junior who really get what we are about and it's been a long time since we could say that.

I hope we keep Marcelo and all the coaching staff, if we do I think we will hold on to most if not all of our players and young starlets and hopefully they will take on board the experiences from this season and come back stronger next season.

As the saying goes "We Are Leeds"

Said I was going, and I Aam, I have much more real world matters to attend to, but as a parting shot.....

Our owner who "gets what we are about" but is quite happy to charge the highest ticket prices in the Championship and even more for visiting supporters than in the PL.

Our owner thought nothing of screwing up the possible acquisition of Daniel Janes if the alternative wa to threaten his other business interests.

Our coach, despite all of his inarguable talents, has shown himself to be stubborn and unwilling to exploit those players that sit outside his own personal view of who is playable and who is not.

We have a group if players who, with relatively few exceptions (given the entire 1st team and U23 squads) don't "get it" in the slightest and who I suspect will b gone like a puff of smoke in the transfer window if there is a sniff of an offer.

This last season has been the best and the worst in the 55 years I have supported Leeds United.

The best because, similarly when we were relealgated to League 1, for a time (even longer thanthat dire time), we exemplified the principle of side before self, and showed that with an inspirational leader, anything was possible.

The worst because having shown to all who had eyes to see and ears to hear that Leeds United were indeed the sleeping giants that all feared and (nearly) all hoped would awaken, the same players who had fostered hope and expectation failed, failed spectacularly, catastrophically and consigned that sleeping giant to years more in the meat grinder of the second tier of English football.

55 years is enough, and other things require my attention. Those who populate the heady heights of professional football have no appreciation of real life or the sacrifices required of normal people to follow their chosen club. The performances of Leeds players in the latter part of this, probably the most significant season in a decade, speak volumes.

I hope all who post here avoid the devil's bullet.